The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-19
srANlEYs EXPEDITION.
THE TREMENDOUS COST OF TRAVEL 1,
CENTRAL AFRICA-AN 100000
OUTFIT.

is ABOUT 10 leaU lntO Africa is Dy Tar
the largest and most expensive that
ever set out on peaceful mission
in the Dark Continent. Travelling
in savage countries is always very
costly. 1t has been estimated that
the average expense incurred by ex-
ploring parties in Africa is over SIS
mile. 1t cost the English and
Algerian missionary societies over
$4,000 apiece for every missionary
they landed on the shores of Vic
toria Nyanza. SANKEY'S trip across
the Continent is said to have cost
about 100000. DR.. Holub, who is
now working his way from South
Africa to the Great Lakes, took
with him an outfit that cost S25, 900.
The money expended by most i'm
portant expenditions has varied
from $4,000 to $4,000. An ex-
plorer's force of porters and other
native assistants varies from about
forty to 250 souls. Mr.. SANKEY'S
present expedition will include about
1000 persons, and his travelling out
fit and trade goods have cost some
thing over 100000. 1t must be
remembered that he is not only try
ing to adequately supply the needs
of his large party, but that he is
also carrying much clothing, ammu-
milton and other supplies to the
several hundred persons who are
numbered in the little retinue of
Emin Pasha.
An exhibition was given in Eng
land the other day Of the perfor-
nance Of Maxim gun. 1t was a
part of the military outfit of the
Stanley expedition, and the explorer
and many prominent men watched
the performance of the weapon with
much satisfaction as it poured forth
a storm of about six hundred bullets
a minute. Here is an expedition
that is bound on q mission of human
ity, and wishes ill to no man. 1T
unfortunately happens, however, that
at no time since Burton and Spoke
penetrated to the Great Lakes, in
1858, have times been so troublous
in Central Africa as they are now.
In Uganda and the region around it,
where Stanley said eleven years ago
he had travelled as securely as in
Europe, the powerful despot
M'wanga has, within the past two
years, killed many thousands of peo-
pie. 1t is said that in one campaign
last year he killed 10000 soldiers Of
his northern neighbor, the King of
Unyoro. He is the avowed enemy
Of the whites, one of whom he has
murdered, two he has enslaved, and
the others who were in his power he
has expelled from his country.
If Stanley is not able by peace
able means to open the road to
Wadelai, if he cannot buy the favor
of the ruler of Uganda, he must de-
fend the lives of his party and by
force, if needs be, fulfill the mis-
sion he is sent TO perform. 1t is
right that he be supplied with the
best appliances of military art. 1t
is believed that the man who has not
been excelled by any African ex-
plorer in the tact and forbearance
he has displayed in his dealings
with the natives may be trusted to
use these appliances only if necessity
compels their use. Among the
Europeans who will accompany Mr..
Stanley is one who is specially quail
fed to handle the Maxim gun.
One of Mr.. SANKEY'S servants
will be boy in his teens, who was
among lot of little slaves that the
explorer bought of the Arabs three
years ago. The slaves were starry
ing, and Stanley bought the boys for
few cotton handkerchiefs, and dis
tributed them among the white
stations along the Congo. These
lads are all from the Aruwimi river
region, and speak languages which
none of the white men on the Congo
have yet acquired. If Mr.. Stanley
takes the Congo route, as he desires
to do, it is very possible that he will
ascend the Aruwimi river to reach
Emin Pasha. If, when he reaches
the Congo, he decides to take this
course, it is his intention to collect
these boys, as he goes up the river,
and make them useful to him as in
terpreters and peacemakers among
their kindred of the Aruwimi tribes,
1t was his belief when he bought
their freedom and distributed these
boys along the river to be educated
in the white mans arts, that by so
doing he was securing so many
strong and faithful native helpers
for his Congo enterprise. 1t is pro-
bable that he little imagined that the
next time he visited the spot where
he freed them from the shackles OF
the Arab slave driver, these boys,
would have been doing well, would
be able to render him services OF
almost incalcplable yalue.-TN. Y.